On 27/10/2014 11:24, Mick wrote: > I'm starting a new thread so as to not hijack the one about alternative > kernels, but continue with something Volker raised. > > On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> as others have written already: ssd. >> >> With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. >> Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. >> And that is first hand experience. > > I haven't yet started using SSD and have wondered what sort of a system > should > I set up to guard against such instantaneous catastrophic failures. I am > interested to hear what strategies people deploy to avoid data loss with > SSDs, > especially on laptops that don't have the luxury of raid redundancy. > > With spinning drives I use tar and rsync at regular intervals. There have > been a few rare cases where a drive failed without prior notice - the last > one > after a reboot. In such cases I am prepared to live with the risk of some > data loss, on machines where raid is not an option. >
Without some form of redundancy that would be your best strategy - decent and frequent backups -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
